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Amazon and Starbucks blast Seattle council's controversial new homeless tax. Starbucks and Amazon have come out swinging against a new tax in Seattle that would see large corporations pay $275 in tax for every employee to help the city's homeless. >>

Amazon fuming after Seattle votes to tax high-grossing corporations to help the homeless. After a threat by the world’s richest man that he might reconsider investing in Seattle, a divided city council came together this week and unanimously approved a new tax on high-grossing corporations — but at about half the amount originally proposed. Both sides — the city, personified by socialist... >>

Amazon hit back hard on head tax in Seattle. CNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports on the impact Seattle's head tax will have on Amazon. >>

Amazon, Starbucks blast Seattle's new business tax. Though the final tax got reduced, both huge employers say this new levy is no way to fix the city's housing woes >>

Amazon's fight with Seattle over head tax foreshadows battles to come in other cities. If Seattle's bitter public fight with Amazon over a new tax on employees is a sign of the future for cities vying to become the company's next headquarters, there's a take-home message: you can push Amazon, but you have to be prepared for it to push back — hard. >>

Analysis: the Seattle-Amazon tax fight is a lose-lose for everyone. Seattle and Amazon screwed the homeless. >>

CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Seattle passes scaled-back tax on Amazon, big companies. SEATTLE, May 14 (Reuters) - Seattle's city council on Monday
approved a new tax for the city's biggest companies, including
Amazon.com Inc, to combat a housing crisis attributed
in part to a local economic boom that has driven up real estate
costs at the expense of the working class. >>

John Stossel: Amazon blasts Seattle's new ‘head tax’ -- Even liberals have their limits. Seattle's big-government restrictions created a housing problem. So now they propose to solve it with more heavy-handed government. >>

Seattle businesses push back against new tax. Amazon bluntly states it's now questioning its growth in Seattle after the city council passes a 'head tax' the city says will help curb the area's homelessness problem. >>

Seattle's tax on Amazon to help homeless may fall.... By Gregory ScruggsSEATTLE, May 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Seattle is imposing a new tax on big business to help combat growing crises with... >>

Why the Seattle 'head tax' is relevant to the nation. When big companies like Amazon locate in your city, they generate benefits and costs. Cutting taxes to win their favor makes it impossible to meet the costs they engender. >>